Halloween Treats...

Unwrap two bags of caramels...

melt them...

dip lots of apples...

add Halloween colored M & M's...

add a few candy corns...

and you have....

Fantastic Friday

Welcome to "FANTASTIC FRIDAY" Deary.... who wouldn't want to have a FANTASTIC evening with FANTASTIC food, FANTASTIC friends and FANTASTIC crafts...

FANTASTIC table decorations...

FANTASTIC laughs...

FANTASTIC turnout and already looking forward to next year!

Pajama Weekend

Last weekend we had a bout of strep throat run through our house. Not so fun, but at least it's a quick fix! So of course that means we hung out in Pajama's and watch movies all weekend long!

Jessica had to watch "Lord of the Rings" for a school class, so we watched that first...

with lot's of yummy treats...

a little cuddle time...

and did we mention snacks???

Finally... we are happy to report we are all feeling much better!!!

Ya Gotta Love Nature...

Maybe this is why we can't get our trees to grow!

TrIcK-oR-tReAt

The children of our house informed us that we DO NOT have enough "HaLlOwEeN" decorations around... soooo... SURPRISE CHILDREN!!!

tHe EnTry

tHe DiNiNg RoOm

tHe KiTcHeN

tHe FaMiLy RoOm

Rasch Family vs Food

If you are familiar with the TV show "Man vs Food" then you will totally get this post! Recently that TV show has become a new favorite at our house. It's about a "man" who travels around the country and tries to eat all of the "challenging" dishes at restaurants, ballparks, fairs, etc. The other night he was visiting a ballpark that made a 5 pound hamburger. The deal was in the 7th inning stretch you start to eat the burger and finish it before the game was over. So the "man" took on the challenge. As we were watching the show... we tried explaining to our kids how much hamburger that really is. They said they got it, but we weren't so sure.

Jaden and Jessica were still thinking about it the next day. So they experimented by making a "double grilled cheese sandwich." They could only eat one half!!

Then last night for dinner we decided to challenge the kids... Ty made a 5 pound hamburger!!! The kids couldn't stop laughing!! The hamburger was HUGE!!! Of course we cut it into pieces, but even that it was a lot of hamburger to eat! Our little family was able to polish off half of the burger!! I guess we can have the other half for lunch today!!

Jaden and Jessie's "double grilled cheese sandwich"

Here's the Hamburger we made for dinner...